The rotary engine in early RX7's were notorious for blowing seals. Many needed rebuilds after 50K miles. This is all information you can find on a Mazda forums and even on Mazdas' racing section of their site. I had one that blew up around 115K miles. In fact they were discontinued until the Rx-8 when Mazda finally felt the "reliability" issues had been solved. One last note to the US car haters...MAzda was near bankrupt in 79' and Ford bought a portion of them. By 89' Ford owned one third of Mazda and had controlling power. They would not exist today if not for US companies like FORD. Read a book, Nissan controlled by REnault, Mitsubishi had worked with Chrysler since back in 1971!!! The Big 3 may be bad off today, but at least I'm old enough to know they won't be that way forever and there situation is similar to where Japanese companies have been NUMEROUS times in their histories. Don't be a ricer!
If its nice and tastefully modified, Japanese cars can be very sweet. I'd like to see less of this sticking to one or the other bs. I can appreciate all cars.
too light of a car , for my taste , but nice ride anyhow i rode the 2 model rx 7 rx 8 and rx 8s and they are quite nice but they dont leave a huge smile on my face like a porsche , lol
if you say so , cheers anyway , but this car certainly doesnt drink like any other muscle car because its just a small 1.3liter engine , i own a civic with a 1.5 and in the city when i push it often it sucks the equivalent of 7 liter in the city and 6 liter on highway
well it will definitely go down a bit in reliability, but not as much as you think. lots of the engines parts can actually stay stock because they can take that power
I had one that blew up around 115K miles. In fact they were discontinued until the Rx-8 when Mazda finally felt the "reliability" issues had been solved. One last note to the US car haters...MAzda was near bankrupt in 79' and Ford bought a portion of them. By 89' Ford owned one third of Mazda and had controlling power. They would not exist today if not for US companies like FORD.
Read a book, Nissan controlled by REnault, Mitsubishi had worked with Chrysler since back in 1971!!!
The Big 3 may be bad off today, but at least I'm old enough to know they won't be that way forever and there situation is similar to where Japanese companies have been NUMEROUS times in their histories. Don't be a ricer!